[Umi to Dokuyaku]
Year:
1958
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Peter Owen
City:
London
Year of publication:
1995
Pages:
176
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
Violent content:
Vulgar or obscene language:
Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
This powerful novel decribes the personal disintergration of a doctor is a obliged to participate of prisoner of war. He remains of personal feelings of horror and guilt.
In the final days of World War II, at a Japanese hospital, a group of doctors conducts cruel medical experiments on American prisoners of war. The novel follows a young doctor who, caught between institutional obedience and his moral conscience, is drawn into participating in these horrific acts. Shūsaku Endō explores ethical decay and the power of self-deception in contexts of authority and war.
Author: C F, Australia
Update on: May 2025